“The drama department became my home.”Īt the time, First Year Players was directed by Stacey Wolf, a UVA graduate student studying directing. “During my first year, I really felt like I had met my people,” she said. One of the first clubs Fey gravitated to was First Year Players, a student-led musical theater organization with a mission of casting only first-year students.īecause it can be difficult to be cast in productions within the UVA’s Department of Drama as a first-year student, the organization was founded in 1977, allowing these students to meet like-minded individuals who share a passion for theater. “I got into my classes and realized, ‘I don’t know what we’re talking about,’” she said. “I had grown up as the ‘whitest’ girl in a very Greek neighborhood, but in the eyes of my new classmates, I was Frida Kahlo in leggings,” Fey wrote.įey entered the University with the assumption that she would major in English, but quickly realized her strengths could be better used elsewhere. In her bestselling comedic autobiography, “Bossypants,” released in 2011, Fey recalls feeling out of place next to her “fifteen thousand blond and blue-eyed classmates.” She remembers feeling “Mexican” – not because she was, but because she looked different than her peers. Growing up 25 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Fey was always surrounded by people that looked like her. The two quickly found that they had something in common: the culture shock of moving to an unfamiliar environment in the South. Upon arriving at UVA for the first time, Fey met her roommate, Karina, an international student from Germany whom she was paired with randomly through UVA’s roommate lottery. The conversation at John Paul Jones arena scheduled for Sunday will be moderated by President Jim Ryan and will underscore the value of the arts in college.įey spoke by phone last week with UVA Today, both about her upcoming talk and about her time on Grounds, where she developed some of the skills that later launched her career as an actress, comedian, producer and writer. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is so beautiful.’”įor the second time in 10 years, Fey will return to Grounds on Sunday to participate in the President’s Speaker Series for the Arts, a series that featured Fey as the inaugural guest in 2013. “You can imagine my delight when I did get there.
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